It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFTFalsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.
JONATHAN SWIFTWhen a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
JONATHAN SWIFTFor in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFTHe was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFTVision is seeing the invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFTPhysicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
JONATHAN SWIFTAn idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
JONATHAN SWIFTParty is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
JONATHAN SWIFTArgument is the worst sort of conversation.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
JONATHAN SWIFTThere is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFTEvery dog must have his day.
JONATHAN SWIFTWe of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
JONATHAN SWIFT